Senator Durbin Under Attack

The Far Right continues to suffer a seemingly endless series of back-firing attacks on Democrats. They tried to go after Barak Obama in ways that only stirred up John McCain's links to the Keating Five scandal, the Iran-Contra scandal, and others.

Now the NeoCons are trying to go after Senator Durbin for saying the words in this video which completely edited out the topic of his speech:



In a letter to the editor that was allowed to be published by the Illinois State Journal Register, a reader repeated the false assertion that Senator Durbin's statement was a general description about all the troops, instead of the few responsible for the abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

"Won’t forget Durbin comment about troops
I will never vote for a U.S. senator who compares our troops to the soldiers of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the Pol Pot regime.
Sen. Dick Durbin hopes that we will forget that he made these comparisons on the floor of the Senate, but we won’t. I personally remind people every chance that I get.

Please join me in voting against this man in November. He is not worthy of the position he currently holds. We need to fire him and replace him with a responsible person who respects our troops.

Don Day
Chatham"

--letter to the Editor. Illinois State Journal Register, October 17, 2008

Letters to the Editor are typical fodder for AM talk-radio personalities that exploit the suffering of listeners by making false villains and falsely blaming certain politicians for the favors of their opponents.

Letters like the one above will most likely be repeated by someone on the radio, then repeated by other conservative main-stream media outlets as alleged truth.

But this doesn't work anymore. It won't work against Senator Durbin, because we cannot forget what he was talking about.

Senator Durbin was talking about the few individuals responsible for Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse.